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TIL: Ants invented agriculture 50-60 million years ago, right around the time that the first primates appear in the fossil record. These ants cultivate a domesticated fungus for food in underground greenhouses and tend to it through watering, weeding, and pest/disease control.

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d8xlr TIL About the 19th century female sculptor Camille Claudel. Regarded as a genius in her time, she was hated by her mother and her brother for her artistic lifestyle. They had her committed to different asylums for the last 30 years of her life, and took all her money. She was buried with the poor.
DQDgg TIL that while the US Men's "dream team" was dominating basketball in 1992, the women's team actually suffered its only Olympic loss in the past 40 years, and went home with a bronze
5VXvQ TIL that, despite there having been nearly 20,000 Major League Baseball players over 150 years, the number 89 was not worn until 2020
Q6KM TIL that Valery Spiridonov, a 31 year old man who suffers from Werdnig-Hoffman’s - a muscle-wasting disease which has left him in a wheelchair, has volunteered to partake in the world’s first head transplant which will take place as early as December of 2017.
N7WW6 TIL that Stephen Hawking used a single cheek muscle to communicate. A sensor attached to his glasses detected these movements which in turn moved a cursor on a screen that utilized predictive text. Much of this text was personalised to Hawking and was based on phrases he had previously used